This Grml release provides fresh software packages from Debian testing, what's going to be released as stable release Debian/stretch in just a few more days. As usual it also incorporates current hardware support and fixes known bugs from previous Grml releases.

Please test the ISOs and everything you usually use and rely on, and report back, so we can complete the stable release soon. If no major problems come up, the next iteration will be the stable release, which is scheduled for end of May (2017 :)).

Wednesday, January 4. 2017

A new stable release of Grml is long overdue and sadly we didn't manage to release a new stable release in 2016 either.

But in Q4 of 2016 we made actual progress with the systemd integration and the according branches should be ready soon for merging to master. A new kernel based on v4.8.15 has been uploaded to grml-testing a few days ago and is included in our daily ISOs already.

We don't want to promise anything we can't hold, but we should have (at least) an RC version available within Q1/2017.

Thursday, January 7. 2016

Grml's latest stable release as of today still is 2014.11 and folks are poking us about the current state of Grml and upcoming stable releases. Thanks to our daily ISOs available at daily.grml.org more up2date versions are available, though we understand and agree that a new stable release is overdue.

Sadly since quite some time we're stuck with a release stopper, being a regression in udev which is visible only if you do not use systemd. Grml is using file-rc as its init system and while the migration to systemd was on our agenda no one took care of this so far. Support for systemd is work in progress though now. We hope to have a new stable release of Grml available in Q1 of 2016!

Please test the ISOs and everything you usually use and report back, so we can complete the stable release soon. If no major problems come up, the next iteration will be the stable release, which is scheduled for end of October.